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[coinleain]

Like if your company manufactures a certain product, and there is a patent for another product on the market that is similar to yours and also is competitive to your product, would the purchase of this patent be amortized like any other patent purchase, or is there a different treatment?

[aethelbert35]

Like if your company manufactures a certain product, and there is a patent for another product on the market that is similar to yours and also is competitive to your product, would the purchase of this patent be amortized like any other patent purchase, or is there a different treatment?

Same treatment, although there may be "anti-competition" investigation if the patent collection is abused.